Dance, and dance, and dance

[fivemack]

Would anyone be interested in going to a contra dance in Cambridge on Saturday evening? It's at the Emmanuel URC on Trumpington Street, 8-11pm; it's like a ceilidh (so there's a caller, you change partner after each dance, and the music is fiddle and bass), only faster, twirlier and more American.

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[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

FWIW, that's the first reference to contra dancing in this country I've yet seen; it took me some time to make the contra dancing - ceilidh connection based purely on mentions I'd seen in the US. (Not to say that it should have taken me any longer than, ooh, one Wikipedia article.)